Word: tracings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Being able to trace Coleman's amazing, groundbreaking rise in the jazz world is the most satisfying aspect of this set. The beatuiful intricacies of "Ramblin" and the startlingly solos on "Free Jazz" are perfectly transferred, guaranteeing a strong result, for this collection can not be critisized on musical grounds...
...college graduate to hold the top position, Trotman is better suited and % more polished these days. But he still likes the rough-and-tumble of an honest working-class spat, almost fondly recalling the good brawls in Britain. "The manufacturing guys were terrifying people," he says with a trace of a burr. "They were barons who would throw you out of the plant if you went in there without permission. Literally. So there was always a culmination of salesmanship, pragmatism, persuasion and logic -- but lots of punch-ups, lots of tempers. Oh, yes, absolutely. Lots...
...about to enter a highly dangerous situation may spur people to take special precautions. The moral duty of those already afflicted, though, must be clearly articulated: being intimate without prior disclosure is like serving arsenic in a cake. And not informing previous contacts (or not helping public authorities trace them without disclosing your name) leaves the victims, unwittingly, to transmit the fatal disease to uncounted others...
...Wasp ways keep their hold over American life, even as Wasps slipped to minority status? As early as 1858, Lincoln noted that "perhaps half our people" were not descendants of the founding generation. "If they look back through ((American)) history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none." Their connection to America derived instead from a reverence for the principles of the Declaration of Independence, which was "the father of all moral principle in them," according to Lincoln. This was "the electric cord . . . that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty- loving men together...
...acolytes and legions of notional recruits, he and his ideas regularly attracted sharp attacks, often from influential quarters. As early as 1909, philosopher William James observed in a letter that Freud "made on me personally the impression of a man obsessed with fixed ideas." Vladimir Nabokov, whose novels trace the untrammeled and unpredictable play of individual imaginations, regularly tossed barbs at "the witch doctor Freud" and "the Viennese quack." For similar reasons, Ludwig Wittgenstein objected to the pigeonholing effects of psychoanalytic categories, even though he paid Freud a backhanded compliment in the process: "Freud's fanciful pseudo explanations (precisely because...